Comment on 99 Ice Cream
The classic English refreshment on a summer's day out. Sold at every popular activity area in the country and even within the streets in which we live, accompanied by the tinkling tune of the van to call the children out. The sight of a 99 is bound to bring forth a memory in everyone who grew up in England.
Comment on 99 Ice Cream posted 2007-01-16 by Claire Adams from Sussex
Comment on 99 Ice Cream
Huzzah, huzzah! Capital, capital! 99 Ice cream! I consumed many of these as a child and I went 25 long years before I had another! Walls ice cream and the Flake Bar, a delightful comestible. I wish we could those out here in the "colonies"!
Comment on 99 Ice Cream posted 2006-08-05 by Andy Sibbald from Canada
Comment on 99 Ice Cream
Someone has already nominated the ice cream van, but I think the 99 flake ice cream cone should be an icon on its own. When i was a kid in the late 70s/ early 80s we could only dream of a 99, it was all 10p Sparkles and Mini Milks. The adults would get to have a 99, which seemed very unfair, and we couldn't wait until we could buy our own - that wonderful stick of chocolate flake, the way the cheap vanilla ice cream would instantly melt and dribble down your arm, oh it takes me right back!
Comment on 99 Ice Cream posted 2006-08-03 by kathryn Jones from Brighton
Comment on 99 Ice Cream
Interesting that all you English folk seem to have the need to claim things as English when they are not exclusively so. I can see things like a "pork pie" being English - but a 99? Get a grip - if you have'nt enough solely ENGLISH things to nominate - then that's a worry!
Comment on 99 Ice Cream posted 2008-04-22 by F.Campbell from Glasgow